By yourdestinationnow.com - November 23, 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse trashed his former attorneys, including Donald Trump crony Lin Wood, for raising money for themselves while letting him rot in jail for 87 days as the teen's lawyers seek to have his $2 million bail returned to their acquitted client.

Rittenhouse, 18, told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that Wood and John Pierce raised money on his behalf after he was jailed for killing two people and wounding a third in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020.

But he said that while the lawyers had raised enough bail money by mid-September, they chose not to post his bail because they wanted to use him for their own cause.

'I was in jail for 87 days,' Rittenhouse told Carlson on Monday in his first interview since being acquitted. 'Lin Wood was raising money on my behalf, and he held me in jail for 87 days, disrespecting my wishes, put me on media interviews which I should never have done, which he said, 'Oh, you're going to go talk to The Washington Post,' which was not a good idea, along with John Pierce.'

'They said I was safer in jail instead of at home with my family.'

Carlson responded: '87 days is a long time to be in jail.'

'It was very long,' said Rittenhouse. 'I lost a lot of weight in there. But 87 days of not being with my family for defending myself and being taken advantage of, being used for a cause by these–by John Pierce and Lin Wood… trying to raise money so they can take it for their own benefit, not trying to set me free.'

Wood and Pierce, who helped raise the bond money to get Rittenhouse released from jail via their #FightBack foundation after his arrest, want their foundation's cash back, but the 18-year-old Antioch, Illinois, resident’s family is refusing.

Mark Richards, the criminal defense lawyer who won Rittenhouse's freedom, immediately filed to have the $2 million returned to his client a lawsuit after Friday's not guilty verdict.

‘I suspect there will be a fight over that,’ Richards told Kenosha News.

‘John Pierce is the person who posted the bond. All that money was raised on behalf of Kyle.

‘Lin Wood and FightBack say they are entitled to it.’

Richards added: 'There was half a million dollars I think that came directly from [Kyle’s mother] Wendy Rittenhouse from money she raised.

'So there's going to be a fight over that, and I'm just thankful there will be a fight over it.'

Rittenhouse sat down with Carlson days after being cleared of homicide, attempted homicide and reckless endangerment in the shooting deaths of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and the wounding of Gaige Grosskreutz, 27.

Rittenhouse was asked if Wood and Pierce simply chose to not raise his bail money faster for their own benefit.

'I believe – sometime in September, September 5, I want to say – they had over a million dollars, and bail was set and able to be posted in September. So they could've had me sign the waiver for extradition and had me back in Wisconsin, and I could have been bailed out by mid-September. But they wanted to keep me in jail until November 20.'

Rittenhouse's new team has previously been critical of the two. Richards even called Wood an 'idiot.'

Wood has since threatened to sue Richards . . .

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